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vegetables and medicaments, or serve as ornamental plants. (Including 

 Mukia Arn., Pilogyne Schrad., and Zehneria Endl.) Melothria L. 



10. Stamens inserted at the throat of the calyx ii 



Stamens inserted in the calyx-tube. Climbing or prostrate herbs. . I2 



11. Stem erect, woody, tree-like. Leaves more or less deeply divided. Flowers 



monoecious, the male in panicles, without apistil. Stigma i, 3-lobed. — 



Species i. Island of Socotra Dendrosicyos Balf. fil. 



Stem prostrate or climbing, herbaceous. Stigmas 3. — Species 30. Central 

 and South Africa, one species also cultivated in North Africa and the 

 Mascarene Islands. Some species yield edible fruits and medicaments, 

 or serve as ornamental plants. (Plate 148.) . . Momordica L. 



12. Anther-cells inflexed at the apex. Connective broad. Flowers small, 



yellow, monoecious, the male with a rudimentary pistil. Stigmas 3. — 

 Species 2. West Africa. They yield edible fruits, oily seeds, and medica- 

 ments. (Including Cladosicyos Hook., under Zehneria Endl.) 



Cucumeropsis Naud. 

 Anther-cells straight, slightly curved, or inflexed at the base. . . 13 



13. Calyx-tube long, cylindrical. Flowers dioecious, the male in panicles, the 



female in racemes. Ovules numerous. Stigmas 2, 2-cleft. — Species 



I. Madagascar Trochomeriopsis Cogn. 



Calyx-tube short, campanulate. Flowers nearly always monoecious. . 14 



14. Male flowers solitary or in fascicles or heads. Stamens with a lengthened 



or broadened connective 15 



Male flowers in racemes r6 



15. Stigma I, lobed. 0\ailes few in each ovary-cell. Staminodes of the 



female flowers minute or wanting. Flowers small, yellowish-green. 

 Fruit opening by a lid. — Species 20. Tropical and South Africa. 



Corallocarpus Welw. 

 Stigmas 3 — 5. Ovules numerous. Staminodes hair-like or strap-shaped. 

 — Species 30. Some of them (especially the cucumber, C. sativus L., 

 and the melon, C. Melo L.) yield edible fruits, oily seeds, and medica- 

 ments, or serve as ornamental plants Cucumis L. 



r6. Leaf-stalk with a small, fringed, stipule-like leaf at the base. Calyx-seg- 

 ments awl-shaped. Male flowers without a rudimentary pistil, female 

 without staminodes. Connective not prolonged. Ovules 2 — 3 in each 

 cell. — Species 2. Central and South-west Africa. [Ctenolepis Hook.) 



Blastania Kotschy & Pe\T. 



Leaf-stalk without a stipule-like leaf at its base 17 



17. Stem short. Flowers appearing before the leaves, the male with a rudi- 

 mentary pistil, the female with linear staminodes. Calyx-segments 

 narrow. Connective narrow, not prolonged. Stigmas 3. Ovules 

 numerous. Leaves lobed. — Species i. South Africa. 



Pisosperma Sond. & Harv. 

 Stem long. Flowers appearing with the leaves 18 



